To help companies handle data backup and recovery tasks, storage specialist EMC plans to unveil a product that is based on disk drives but acts as a tape device.
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Hitachi Data Systems launched on Monday a virtual tape library aimed at high-end open systems and mainframe users.
Magnetic tape data storage may have been around for more than half a century but systems administrators will be stuck with it for some time yet, according to one of Sun Microsystems' top storage executives.
Taking another step into data storage, Microsoft on Friday unveiled software for backing up files on disk-based systems.
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StorageTek unveiled a tape device for mid-size businesses last week, amid signs that tape is preserving a place in data storage.
Storage maker Quantum has unveiled two disk-based backup appliances designed as tape replacements for Australian mid-sized office and datacentre use.
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